to get internet we have to cut a hole in the roof? yes. And there's no other way? No,
I feel like i'm gonna have to change it now I've got a massive hole in the roof.
You only get one shot at life. You gotta live it!
We're Chris and Morgan a British American couple on a mission to show our kids Jonah and Jude
that the best things in life happen outside of our comfort zones. We're renovating our fifth
wheel bilbo to become our home on wheels as we hit the road full time on a quest to explore
50 states in 50 weeks. Where are we now? Hi, Explorers! Greetings from inside Bilbo. This
week we made a very important decision and I'm so excited we figured out what we were going to do
what we are doing for internet for full-time RV living. The reason that this was so crazy
is because we reached out to numerous people vloggers, bloggers you name it, companies and
everybody seems to use a different source for internet a different package and it varies from
price point to quality to coverage it was just something that has been stressing us out since
day one. So to figure it out is so exciting and we really were holding out for Starlink as well
and that just didn't happen yet so chris did the most digging super happy about that and he
found an option that's good for our family yes we went with a company called mobile must have
and they had a package called the speed demon plus which is great for us because it came with
a rooftop antenna it came with a router and it came with a data only cell package that's going
to give us much higher and faster speeds further reach and hopefully there may be some dead spots
there again i think that's gonna be expected when you're full time being but this should give us a
much better overall strength and better signal for the rv internet we thought about using just
our cell phones and our hot spots and that just wasn't strong enough because we need this for work
we need this for virtual school for donut and just general entertainment especially on rainy days
like most of the things that we've tackled here in the rv we thought this was going to be very simple
this one we actually thought it was going to be probably an afternoon project but like most things
that we have tackled it definitely was not this thing called the pep wave uh which i think is like
the modem i believe not sure entirely and antennas which are not even going to use because we bought
this massive parsec antenna which is going to require me to drill a big hole in the roof and
it's going to apparently give us a really good signal we also went with this att 300 gigabyte
plan before we set up the pet wave we have to figure out where the antenna is going to go in the
roof because it can't be near the ac and it can't be near another antenna for interference and so
i'm going to get the ladder out get out there take a look figure out where the hole is gonna go and i
figured where to put this and how i'm gonna mount it and how i'm gonna use either ac or dc power
i've been debating about this all day as you can tell because
it's dark outside now i think i'm happy with where i've decided it's gonna be in the back of the unit
and it's going to be on the very back end corner away from other antennas more than
24 inches away from the ac unit which is recommended and now i have to drill an inch
and a half hole into the roof of the unit that terrifies me because what if i mess up messes up
did not anticipate this
probably not the safest to be walking around on an army pitch black
why can't i get through this it's too deep for the parsec screw mount
to come through like i i can't get it to come through anymore because it's right here i'm gonna
have to like cut out a square or something just so i can attach this i feel like i'm gonna have
to change it now i've got massive horn roof i'm gonna have to fill the hole and make another hole
i did some research and found out that that's just an optional thing apparently
and the main thing is this 3m strip on here so you gotta clean the roof off
use a 3m strip use some dicor around to seal it and you should be fine just make
sure it's nice and clean and it gives you a really good surface to adhere to
outside work is done now we got to figure out
how to make this look nice and pretty on the inside picked up these mounting
pads and zip ties at lowe's so i'm gonna try and put these on the cables
now we have a cable neatly snaked on the back there and we're gonna put the router right here
lte connections our cellular connections and our wi-fi connections all in there
and our gps um antenna too from the roof the internet
and now we have the internet for school for work and for general entertainment on those rainy days
thank you so much for watching if you have any questions on this please please reach out to us
because we would be more than happy to help you out because this was so hard for us to decide
on and if we can help one other person make this decision and help them out a little bit
and save half of the stress that we had we would really love to do so so feel free to reach out
we're so excited to get on the road if you have any questions leave them down in the comments
and we're so excited to have some fun news to share with you next sunday so we will see you then
cheers this thing here is the pep wave router and then what you're holding is the antenna
and that goes on the roof and we got a hole in the roof
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